IMPROVEMENT OF PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE OF TEACHERS IN THE SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL CLUSTER

Abstract

The authors of the article, based on existing works devoted to the formation and/or improvement of the pedagogical competence of teachers of technical universities, conduct their research to study issues on the improvement of pedagogical competence of teachers at all levels of agricultural education, including agricultural teachers who carry out the educational process in educational institutions of secondary and higher professional agricultural education. The authors see the way to solve the problem in the pedagogization and humanization of the entire process of agricultural education through the creation of a special department, improving the pedagogical skills of teachers of Belgorod Agrarian University (BelGAU), as the center of the entire agricultural educational cluster of Belgorod Region, providing opportunities for higher pedagogical education for teachers of secondary vocational education based on full-time and distance learning using distance learning technology. The work carried out by the teachers of the Department of Vocational Training and Socio-pedagogical disciplines gives noticeable positive results.